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Am Maienfeste 'Der Jäger an die Müllerin'

Introduction

Berger’s songs are mostly simple and are clearly meant for amateur performance. Nevertheless, they have a terse kind of effectiveness and greater sophistication than a preliminary reading first reveals. There are two songs here where the Schubert enthusiast will not be familiar with the texts—Am Maienfeste which gives words to a character, the hunter, who stays ominously silent in Schubert’s cycle, and Rose, die Müllerin for the Maid of the Mill who only speaks in reported speech in the Müller version.

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The gardener boy has planted abundant varieties of green vegetables; the miller lad toils to keep you surrounded by green May woods. But on this green May Day festival I shall bring you the best of green!

See, the slender pine eavesdrops at your threshold, murmuring melodies of love outside your cosy little dwelling; the flower that lives in the dust is silent, while the pine sings as it rises proudly.

Sweet girl, the green huntsman is like that tall pine. Come out of your little room, then it will quickly lower its branches to embrace you, little white rose, with its enfolding green arms.